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If you really think legalizing dope will eliminate ONE government job, prison cell, or agency, you are really dense or malinformed. It will simply create ANOTHER layer of bureaucracy--the doper-coddling rehab bureaucracy--to overlay the current one.

If you really think legalizing dope will eliminate ONE government job, prison cell, or agency, you are really dense or malinformed. It will simply create ANOTHER layer of bureaucracy--the doper-coddling rehab bureaucracy--to overlay the current one.

Like we have a boozer-coddling rehab bureacracy now?

With even just pot legalized, most of the wind would be taken out of the sails of groups like the DEA. Thats 700,000 people a year not being arrested for simple possession. It may not close jails, but it will fill those extra cells up with murders, rapists and thieves.

Any social problems that could possibly occur can easily be handled by the massive influx of cash that ending the War on Drugs would bring.

Hell, I don't understand how you people can support a FEDERAL War on Drugs. If you were just for State Level Prohibition, I would understand. I can only assume you have some sort of overriding personal self-interest in keeping the corruption going...very sad.

If you really think legalizing dope will eliminate ONE government job,

Actually, you may have a point there. The way the Dimocrats and Repuglicans do things, it'd just form another branch of government to monitor such things. After all, that's what they did after Alcohol Prohibition was lifted. With the ending of the Cold War, now we have the Department of Homeland Defense. No telling where all those government workers would go. IRS, half the FBI, BATF, DEA. They wouldn't have much of a clue on how to go about getting a productive job. Maybe individual communities could get together and hire them to go through the local dump looking for recyclable materials. Sounds like a worthwhile goal for them.

Even more reason to vote Libertarian.